Verizon utters solemn Oath: Yahoo! will remain Yahoo!

Purple Palace keeps its exclamation mark under Alphabetical umbrella

Logo Watch After a brief social media flurry, Yahoo! has spiked speculation that it's about to lose its name.

The errors started with Business Insider, where “there's going to be a new name after the acquisition” speculation was given wings by a perhaps-badly-timed Tweet from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong launching a brand called "Oath:" to cover the company's various media assets.

"Oath:" is to Yahoo! as Alphabet is to Google, he explained: “the name Verizon has chosen for the media division that will house Yahoo!’s media sites, AOL (including TechCrunch and Engadget) and Huffington Post … a typical house-of-brands strategy”.

It makes sense: insiders might view the Yahoo! brand as passé (and seriously damaged by repeated hacks), but Alexa puts the former in sixth place in its global top-500, and it would be rash to abandon the property for a branding exercise.

The Register might not have minded the change, since Oath: takes much less typing than Yahoo!